Previously Sold Guitars

Clarence Burnett Flamenco 1996

This used handmade flamenco guitar features solid Spanish cypress back and sides; a solid Sitka spruce top, ebony fret board and French polish finish. The guitar is in good condition only with minor aesthetic blemishes. There is a crack under the saddle where the top is joined together but it is structurally sound. After playing a Burnett guitar, world-renowned classical guitarist Pepe Romero stated, "you would be doing a disservice to the world if you quit building guitars." Burnett guitars have excellent sound and playability but refrain from costly aesthetic details, which create inflated cost to the customer. This guitar is regularly $3000 and is a steal for $1200.

$1200.00

1989 Dake Traphagen European Spruce/Honduran Rosewood

The standard models of Traphagen guitars are made from either European or Englemen Spruce or Red Cedar. The back and sides can be made from various woods such as Brazilian Rosewood, Honduras Rosewood, East Indian Rosewood or Spanish Cypress such as this particular Honduran  Rosewood guitar. The neck wood is always constructed from Spanish Cedar, reinforced with a hidden graphite bar. The finger board uses Ebony. The  bridge is made from Brazilian Rosewood. These are the various woods used in a  standard model, resulting in a difference in tone and price.  This guitar feaures a Gilbert style bridge with pins to adjust the height of each string.

$3250.00

Gil Carnal Lattice Braced Concert Guitar
Cedar Top/South East Asian Rosewood  Back and Sides

William Jenks, concert guitarist and owner of Portland Classic Guitar,  plays Gil Carnal guitars exclusively and is a proud distributor of these exceptional instruments.  Gil Carnal guitars follow the dimension, shape and most of the aspects of traditional classical guitars. The changes  are to the underside of the soundboard, treating it a little bit like the wing of a plane and creating a lighter resonating area that presents the  same resistance as a traditional soundboard.  He uses lattice bracing made  of lightweight wood reinforced with graphite fiber in the manner of  Greg Smallman. Actually, the technology is similar but the concept is very different. Read More

$5000.00

George Smith European Spruce/African Blackwood Back and Sides

This is an example of the beautiful  guitars of George Smith at Portland Classic Guitar.  This is an exceptionally  beautiful looking and sounding concert classical guitar: deep, open,  colorful, very even sound, excellent dynamic range and projection, lovely sweet musical character - immaculate workmanship throughout. In short, in a  world not short on talent, Georg Smith is an accomplished luthier of  traditionally braced concert guitars.

$5640.00

Dan Biasca Cedar/Madagascar Rosewood Back and sides.
Our onsite Luthier Builds these exceptional instruments.  For  more information on these instruments click here

$4350.00